Creating Audio and Video Files

The first step to adding audio and video to your Web site is to create the source files or gather prerecorded source files. It's important to remember that good media content on the Web is the result of good media sampling. If you create a sound clip by taking your tape recorder to a concert and recording your favorite song from the twentieth row, you will have quite a different quality clip than one produced in a studio.

You need a good microphone and good sound editing software if you're recording your own sound sample. For a good video sample, you need a high quality capture device and encoding software.